Gomez was among three archbishops to take part in a pre-game Mass with Tom Benson, the Saints owner and business mogul. The Mass is a custom apparently for Benson and didn’t hurt his team as it went on to dismantle the Patriots that night.Benson is a longtime Catholic benefactor to San Antonio institutions and the clergy heading them up. He gave $15 million to the city’s Oblate School of Theology and bankrolled the new football program at the University of the Incarnate Word.Gomez and Benson were together last year to dedicate UIW’s football stadium. Gomez blessed it with holy water. — Abe Levy